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Contraries are cured by contraries.

Bill Vaughan

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Dog Kings Shoes
There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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Kind Pedestrian Two
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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Discipline Sensible Sports
A nation has character only when it is free.
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Character Liberty Nations
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Creative Giving Sublime
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Chance Nostalgia Safe
American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Bible Country Culture More Part Suffering Thinking
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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Away Bed Men Night Spring Walk
Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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End Much World
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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Progress Stars Worry
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Deceit Remembrance World
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Behaviour Littles People
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Character Forgiveness United States
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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God Soul Thrones
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Action Surely Talking

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